Environmental Archeology and Cultural Systems in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador: A Survey of the Central Labrador Coast from 3000 B.C. to the Present

• Published in: Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology
• Main Author: Fitzhugh, William W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1972
• Subjects: Arctic; Hamilton Inlet; Indian; arctic small tool tradition; Dorset culture; eskimo*; North West River; Sea ice; Tundra; Shield archaic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.16.1

This monograph presents the results of a two-year investigation of the prehistoric and contemporary cultural geography of the Hamilton Inlet region of the central Labrador coast. Previously archeologically unknown, this 200-mile estuary cross-cuts the boreal-tundra ecotone and is an area in which th...